EU Trusted List (EUTL)
Definition
The authoritative list maintained by the European Commission listing all Trust Service Providers per EU member state that are supervised to issue qualified certificates, qualified timestamps, or other qualified trust services. Used to establish whether a claimed QES certificate was issued by an authorised TSP.
Related terms
- Aadhaar E-Sign
- India's authentication-linked electronic signature service in which the user's Aadhaar biometric or OTP authentication triggers the generation of a short-validity signing certificate...
- ESIGN Act (Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act)
- US federal legislation (2000) providing that no electronic signature may be denied legal effect solely because it is in electronic form. Technology-neutral:...
- Long-Term Validation (LTV)
- A PDF signature profile (PAdES-LTV, ETSI EN 319 102-1) in which the OCSP responses, CRL data, and TSA certificate chain information are...
- OCSP (Online Certificate Status Protocol)
- A real-time certificate revocation protocol in which the verifier queries the CA's OCSP responder with the certificate's serial number and receives a...
- Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
- The system of hardware, software, policies, and standards that manage digital certificates and public-key encryption. Provides the trust architecture underpinning all cryptographic...
- QSCD (Qualified Signature Creation Device)
- A hardware or remote HSM-based device that stores the signer's private key such that it cannot be extracted, ensuring sole control under...
- Qualified Electronic Signature (QES)
- The highest tier of electronic signature under EU eIDAS Regulation 910/2014. Created by a Qualified Signature Creation Device (QSCD), backed by a...
- TSA Timestamp (Timestamp Authority)
- A cryptographically protected record of the time at which a signature was created, issued by a Timestamp Authority (TSA) whose own certificate...
- X.509 Certificate
- A digitally signed data structure that binds a public key to a named identity (subject) and is issued by a Certificate Authority....
Explained in
- E-Signatures: Aadhaar e-Sign, eIDAS and ESIGN / UETAThe authoritative list maintained by the European Commission listing all Trust Service Providers per EU member state that are supervised to issue qualified cer...